With yet more grim light today, I was glad I had agreed to meet up with a couple of other ‘togs at the gallery we are to exhibit in next July. Robin who runs the gallery and framing workshop also keeps a three legged refugee dog from the former Yugoslavia. As luck would have it, […]
From full steam ahead to my vessel is stopped in the water
Last week I stood down from a voluntary role that I have held for 7 years. The only analogy I can allude to is a maritime one. Many years ago I plied my trade patrolling the waters of the UK mainland in a quest to prevent smuggling of people and contraband. They were exciting times […]
New Backlight design and new ways of working
I have been using products from the Turning Gate for quite a few years now. It all started with my need to project images at a very rare wedding shoot. I only did that shoot as a favour but it led me to changing my working practices from what I thought was best to something […]
The Greening
I was out and about at 0430 last Sunday in my quest to capture both the ultra low tide on the Stour and the rapidly disappearing industrial complex at Cattawade. Now that I know the site will be a railway depot servicing new Swiss trains for Greater Anglia there is no time to waste. Everyone […]
Estuarine Mud
I have written here before about my rather too many years of commuting by rail into the smoke and the highlight of my journey being the approach to Manningtree from the North. I still marvel at the presence of fragile and very rare salt-marsh so close to a toxic factory site at Cattawade. I have […]
Flower Power
Now then. Most people of a certain age would think I am about to start writing about the 60s with a title like this. Yes, I am in my 60s and trying to cram as much into the daylight hours as possible, and yes I think the Lib Dems suggestion of legalising cannabis is a […]
Punch drunk on Kodak
I’ve pushed myself of late to get the large format cameras out to make images outside of my normal seasonal window. It is fair to say that finding my desired high pressure windows with little wind has been a struggle but the sheer excitement of making the images using old equipment and the despatch of […]
An abundance of bunds
I had to go out today, I just had to go out. Cabin fever was setting in and this was the first relatively low wind day for yonks. All the large format gear had been well tested and serviced over the weekend but despite the relative calm, it was just too bright and contrasty, and […]
Couldn’t quite make it
I marvel at the herculean efforts that some people must make to get so close to a litter bin yet fail to manage to lift the lid and deposit their crap in in it. I made this image today after a speculative visit to the Strand, an officially classified Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Scenes […]
Mayday
Yes, I know. Where have the first 4 months of this year gone? Here we are on Mayday, and from where I am sitting there is something about the klaxon call of the international distress signal that is ringing in my ears, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. I am one of those who fear the likely dictatorship […]